WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 2011

Today is Wednesday, July 20, the 201st day of 2011. There are 164 days left in the year.

1858 ― Fee first charged to see a baseball game (50 cents) (N.Y. beats Brooklyn 22-18)

1868 ― First use of tax stamps on cigarettes

1872 ― Mahlon Loomis receives patent for wireless ... the radio is born

1917 ― WW I draft lottery held; No. 258 is first drawn

1940 ― Singles record charts first published by Billboard; Tommy Dorsey No. 1

1944 ― President FDR nominated for an unprecedented fourth term at Democrats’ convention

1944 ― U.S. invades Japanese-occupied Guam in WW II

1944 ― Von Stauffenberg fails on an attempt on Hitler's life

1960 ― USSR recovered two dogs; first living organisms to return from space

1969 ― First men on Moon, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, Apollo 11